The 2D Dual Y Combination Chart allows you to plot 2D Columns, Lines & Area on the same chart against 2 y-axes. You can choose to plot any dataset as column, line or area and you can also choose the axis (primary or secondary) to plot it on.

Primary axis refers to the left side axis of the chart. Secondary refers to the right side axis.

On line/area charts, ANCHORS (or marker points) are polygons which appear at the joint of two consecutive lines/area points. These are indicators to show the position of data points. The anchors handle tool tips and links for the data points.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

_xScale

_yScale

BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND refers to the entire background of the chart.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

_xScale

_yScale

CANVAS

In 2D Charts, CANVAS refers to the area in which the actual chart is plotted. It is represented by a bounded rectangle. In 3D charts, it refers to the 3D base on which the columns are built.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

_xScale

_yScale

CAPTION

CAPTION refers to the heading of the chart.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

DATALABELS

DATALABELS refer to the x-axis labels of the data.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

DATAPLOTAREA

DATAPLOTAREA refers to the area plot on the chart.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

_xScale

_yScale

DATAPLOTCOLUMN

DATAPLOTCOLUMN refers to the column plot on the chart.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

_xScale

_yScale

DATAPLOTLINE

DATAPLOTLINE refers to the line plot on the chart.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

_xScale

_yScale

DATAVALUES

DATAVALUES refer to the plot values i.e., value of each data (line, column, bar, pie etc.), which is displayed beside the data plot.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

DIVLINES

DIVLINES are horizontal or vertical lines running through the canvas. Each divisional line signifies a smaller unit of the entire axis thus aiding the users in interpreting the chart.

LEGEND is the object in which the series names of all datasets show up.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

SUBCAPTION

SUBCAPTION refers to the sub-heading of the chart.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

TOOLTIP

TOOLTIP refers to the tool tip shown when the mouse is hovered over the data plots.

Font

TRENDLINES

TRENDLINES refer to horizontal lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_y

_xScale

_yScale

TRENDVALUES

TRENDVALUES refer to the display values of trend-lines (if any).

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

VLINES

VLINES are vertical separator lines that help you separate blocks of data. These lines run through the height of the chart, thereby segregating data into different blocks. In case of bar charts, they are horizontal and run through the width of chart.

Animation

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

_yScale

VLINELABELS

VLINELABELS refer to any labels that have been created for vertical separator lines.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

XAXISNAME

XAXISNAME refers to the x-axis title of the chart.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

YAXISNAME

YAXISNAME refers to the y-axis title of the chart.

Animation

Font

Shadow

Glow

Bevel

Blur

_alpha

_x

_y

YAXISVALUES

YAXISVALUES refer to the limit values or divisional line values, which are displayed along the y-axis of the chart.

These attributes let you control a variety of functional elements on the chart. For example, you can opt to show/hide data labels, data values, y-axis values. You can also set chart limits and extended properties.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

animation

Boolean

0/1

This attribute gives you the option to control animation in your charts. If you do not want to animate any part of the chart, set this as 0.

palette

Number

1-5

FusionCharts XT introduces the concept of Color Palettes. Each chart has 5 pre-defined color palettes which you can choose from. Each palette renders the chart in a different color theme. Valid values are 1-5.

paletteColors

String

List of hex color codes separated by comma

While the palette attribute allows to select a palette theme that applies to chart background, canvas, font and tool-tips, it does not change the colors of data items (i.e., column, line, pie etc.). Using paletteColors attribute, you can specify your custom list of hex colors for the data items. The list of colors have to be separated by comma e.g., <chart paletteColors='FF0000,0372AB,FF5904...'>. The chart will cycle through the list of specified colors and then render the data plot accordingly.

To use the same set of colors throughout all your charts in a web application, you can store the list of palette colors in your application globally and then provide the same in each chart XML.

showAboutMenuItem

Boolean

0/1

Setting this to 1 shows up a custom context menu in the chart, which can be customized to show your text and can be linked to your Url. For e.g., you can set the context menu of the chart to include "About your company name" and then link to your company home page. By default, the chart shows "About FusionCharts" when right clicked.

aboutMenuItemLabel

String

The menu item label for the custom context menu item.

aboutMenuItemLink

String

URL

Link for the custom context menu item. You can specify the link in FusionCharts Link format to be able to open the same in new window, pop-ups, frames or as JavaScript links.

connectNullData

Boolean

0/1

This attribute lets you control whether empty data sets in your data will be connected to each other OR do they appear as broken data sets. Please see Advanced charting >Plotting Discontinuous data section for more details on this.

areaOverColumns

Boolean

0/1

If you've both area and column plots on the combination chart, this attribute lets you configure whether area chart will appear over column chart.

showLabels

Boolean

0/1

It sets the configuration whether the x-axis labels will be displayed or not.

labelDisplay

String

AUTO Since v 3.2
WRAPSTAGGERROTATE orNONE

Using this attribute, you can customize the alignment of data labels (x-axis labels). There are 5 options: AUTO, WRAP, STAGGER, ROTATE or NONE. By default, this attribute is set to AUTO mode which means that the alignment of the data labels is determined automatically depending on the size of the chart. WRAP wraps the label text if it is too long to fit in one line. ROTATE rotates the labels vertically. STAGGER divides the labels into multiple lines.

useEllipsesWhenOverflow

Since v 3.2.1

Boolean

0/1

When enabled in auto mode, long data labels are truncated by adding ellipses to prevent them from overflowing the chart background. The default value is 1.

rotateLabels

Boolean

0/1

This attribute lets you set whether the data labels will show up as rotated labels on the chart.

slantLabels

Boolean

0/1

If you've opted to show rotated labels on chart, this attribute lets you set the configuration whether the labels will show as slanted labels or fully vertical ones.

labelStep

Number

1 or above

By default, all the labels are displayed on the chart. However, if you've a set of streaming data (like name of months or days of week), you can opt to show every n-th label for better clarity. This attribute just lets you do so. When a value greater than 1 (n) is set to this attribute, the first label from left and every label at the n-th position from left will be displayed. e.g., a chart showing data for 12 months and set with labelStep='3' will show labels for January, April, July and October. The rest of the labels will be skipped.

staggerLines

Number

2 or above

If you've opted for STAGGER mode as labelDisplay, using this attribute you can control how many lines to stagger the label to. By default, all labels are displayed in a single line.

showValues

Boolean

0/1

Sets the configuration whether data values will be displayed along with the data plot on chart.

valuePosition

Since v 3.2

String

ABOVEBELOWAUTO

If you've opted to show data values on the chart, this attribute lets you adjust the vertical alignment of data values with respect to dataplots. By default, this attribute is set to AUTO mode in which the alignment of each data value is determined automatically based on the position of each plot point. In ABOVE mode, data values are displayed above the plot points unless a plot point is too close to the upper edge of the canvas while in BELOW mode, data values are displayed below the plot points unless a plot point is too close to the lower edge of the canvas.

rotateValues

Boolean

0/1

If you've opted to show data values, you can rotate them using this attribute.

placeValuesInside

Boolean

0/1

If you've opted to show data values, you can show them inside the columns using this attribute. By default, the data values show outside the column.

showYAxisValues

Boolean

0/1

FusionCharts XT y-axis is divided into vertical sections using div (divisional) lines. Each div line assumes a value based on its position. Using this attribute you can set whether to show those div line (y-axis) values or not. This attribute shows or hides the y-axis divisional lines and limits. The values of showLimits and showDivLineValues if specified explicitly overrides the value of this attribute.

showLimits

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show chart limit values. If not specified showYAxisValues attribute overrides this value.

showDivLineValues

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show div line values. If not specified showYAxisValues attribute overrides this value.

showSecondaryLimits

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show secondary axis chart limit values.

showDivLineSecondaryValue

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show div line values for the secondary y-axis.

defaultAnimation

Boolean

0/1

By default, each chart animates some of its elements. If you wish to switch off the default animation patterns, you can set this attribute to 0. It can be particularly useful when you want to define your own animation patterns using STYLE feature.

yAxisValuesStep

Number

1 or above

By default, all div lines show their values. However, you can opt to display every x(th) div line value using this attribute.

showShadow

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show shadows for data plot.

adjustDiv

Boolean

0/1

FusionCharts XT automatically tries to adjust divisional lines and limit values based on the data provided. However, if you want to set your explicit lower and upper limit values and number of divisional lines, first set this attribute to false. That will disable automatic adjustment of divisional lines.

rotateYAxisName

Boolean

0/1

If you do not wish to rotate y-axis name, set this as 0. It specifically comes to use when you've special characters (UTF8) in your y-axis name that do not show up in rotated mode.

clickURL

String

The entire chart can now act as a hotspot. Use this URL to define the hotspot link for the chart. The link can be specified in FusionCharts Link format.

PYAxisMaxValue

Number

This attribute helps you explicitly set the upper limit of the primary y-axis. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you.

SYAxisMinValue

Number

This attribute helps you explicitly set the lower limit of the secondary y-axis. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you.

SYAxisMaxValue

Number

This attribute helps you explicitly set the upper limit of the secondary y-axis. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you.

PYAxisMinValue

Number

This attribute helps you explicitly set the lower limit of the primary y-axis. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you.

setAdaptiveYMin

Boolean

0/1

This attribute lets you set whether the y-axis lower limit will be 0 (in case of all positive values on chart) or should the y-axis lower limit adapt itself to a different figure based on values provided to the chart.

setAdaptiveSYMin

Boolean

0/1

This attribute lets you set whether the secondary y-axis lower limit will be 0 (in case of all positive values on chart) or should the y-axis lower limit adapt itself to a different figure based on values provided to the chart.

syncAxisLimits

Boolean

0/1

Setting this attribute to 1 lets you synchronize the limits of both the primary and secondary axes.

PYAxisNameWidth

Number

(In Pixels)

If you opt to not rotate y-axis name, you can choose a maximum width that will be applied to primary y-axis name.

SYAxisNameWidth

Number

(In Pixels)

If you opt to not rotate y-axis name, you can choose a maximum width that will be applied to secondary y-axis name.

centerYaxisName

Since v 3.2.2

Boolean

0/1

This attribute when set to '1', allows you to align the y-axis name with respect to the height of the chart. When set to '0', the y-axis name is aligned with respect to the height of the canvas.

This attribute sets the background color for the chart. You can set any hex color code as the value of this attribute. To specify a gradient as background color, separate the hex color codes of each color in the gradient using comma. Example: FF5904,FFFFFF. Remember to remove # and any spaces in between. See Advanced charting >Using Gradients page for more details.

bgAlpha

Number

0-100

Sets the alpha (transparency) for the background. If you've opted for gradient background, you need to set a list of alpha(s) separated by comma. See Advanced charting >Using Gradients page for more details.

bgRatio

Number

0-100

If you've opted for a gradient background, this attribute lets you set the ratio of each color constituent. See Advanced charting >Using Gradients page for more details.

bgAngle

Number

0-360

Sets the angle of the background color, in case of a gradient. See Advanced charting >Using Gradients page for more details.

bgImage

or

bgSWF - deprecated

String

To place any image (JPG/PNG/GIF) or Flash movie (SWF) as background of the chart, enter the (path and) name of the background image or SWF file. It should be in the same domain as the chart.

Loading of Flash movie is deprecated and is not supported by JavaScript charts.

bgImageAlpha

or

bgSWFAlpha - deprecated

Number

0-100

Helps you specify alpha for the loaded background image or Flash movie.

Loading of Flash movie is deprecated and is not supported by JavaScript charts.

bgImageDisplayMode

Since v3.2.2

String

stretch, tile, fit, fill, center, none

Helps you specify the mode in which the background image is to be displayed.

Stretch - expands the image to fit the entire chart area, without maintaining original image constraints

If you've opted to show a label for any of your vLines in the chart, you can collectively configure whether to show border for all such labels using this attribute. If you want to show label border for just a particular vLine, you can over-ride this value by specifying border configuration for that specific vLine.

logoURL

String

URL

You can load an external logo (JPEG/PNG/SWF) on the chart once it has rendered. This attribute lets you specify the URL of the same. Owing to Flash Player security settings, you can only specify logo that are on the same sub-domain as that of the SWF file of the chart.

logoPosition

String

TLTRBLBRCC

Where to position the logo on the chart:

TL - Top-left

TR - Top-right

BR - Bottom right

BL - Bottom left

CC - Center of screen

logoAlpha

Number

0-100

Once the logo has loaded on the chart, you can configure its opacity using this attribute.

logoScale

Number

0-300

You can also change the scale of externally loaded logo at run-time by specifying a value for this parameter.

logoLink

String

URL

If you want to link the logo to an external URL, specify the link in this attribute. The link can be in FusionCharts Link format, allowing you to link to new windows, pop-ups, frames etc.

These attributes let you configure how your plot (columns, lines, area, pie or any data that you're plotting) will appear on the chart.

If the plots can show borders, you can control the border properties using the attributes listed below. Or, if they support gradient fills, you can again configure various properties of the gradient using these attributes.

Various other controls over plot cosmetics can be attained using this set of attributes.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

useRoundEdges

Boolean

0/1

If you wish to plot columns with round edges and fill them with a glass effect gradient, set this attribute to 1.

The following functionalities will not work when this attribute is set to 1:

showShadow attribute doesn't work any more. If you want to remove shadow from columns, you'll have to over-ride the shadow with a new shadow style (applied to DATAPLOT) with alpha as 0.

Plot fill properties like gradient color, angle etc. will not work any more, as the colors for gradient are now calculated by the chart itself.

Plot border properties also do not work in this mode. Also, you cannot render the border as dash in this mode.

showPlotBorder

Boolean

0/1

Whether the column, area border will show up.

plotBorderColor

Color

Color for column, area border

plotBorderThickness

Number

0-5 (Pixels)

Thickness for column, area border

plotBorderAlpha

Number

0-100

Alpha for column, area border

plotBorderDashed

Boolean

0/1

Whether the plot border should appear as dashed.

plotBorderDashLen

Number

In Pixels

If plot border is to appear as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash.

plotBorderDashGap

Number

In Pixels

If plot border is to appear as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each gap between two dash.

plotFillAngle

Number

0-360

If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the fill angle for gradient.

plotFillAlpha

Number

0-100

If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the fill alpha for gradient.

plotGradientColor

Color

Hex Color

You can globally add a gradient color to the entire plot of chart by specifying the second color as this attribute. For example, if you've specified individual colors for your columns and now you want a gradient that ends in white. You need to specify FFFFFF (white) as this color and the chart will now draw plots as gradient.

lineColor

Color

Hex Code

Color using which the lines on the chart will be drawn.

lineThickness

Number

In Pixels

Thickness of the lines on the chart.

lineAlpha

Number

0-100

Alpha of the lines on the chart.

lineDashed

Boolean

0/1

Configuration whether to show the lines on the chart as dash.

lineDashLen

Number

In Pixels

If the lines are to be shown as dashes, this attribute defines the length of dash.

lineDashGap

Number

In Pixels

If the lines are to be shown as dashes, this attribute defines the length of dash gap.

On line/area charts, anchors (or marker points) are polygons which appear at the joint of two consecutive lines/area points. These are indicators to show the position of data points.

The anchors handle tool tips and links for the data points. So, if you opt to not render anchors on a chart, the tool tips and links won't function. You can, however, hide them by setting alpha to 0 and still enable tool tips and links.

You can customize all the facets of anchors using the properties below.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

drawAnchors

Boolean

0/1

Whether to draw anchors on the chart. If the anchors are not shown, then the tool tip and links won't work.

anchorSides

Number

3-20

This attribute sets the number of sides the anchor will have. For e.g., an anchor with 3 sides will represent a triangle, with 4 it will be a square and so on.

anchorRadius

Number

In Pixels

This attribute sets the radius (in pixels) of the anchor. Greater the radius, bigger will be the anchor size.

anchorBorderColor

Color

Hex Code

Lets you set the border color of anchors.

anchorBorderThickness

Number

In Pixels

Helps you set border thickness of anchors.

anchorBgColor

Color

Hex Code

Helps you set the background color of anchors.

anchorAlpha

Number

0-100

Helps you set the alpha of entire anchors. If you need to hide the anchors on chart but still enable tool tips, set this as 0.

In combination charts, the series name of each dataset shows up in the legend of the chart. If you do not need the legend, you can opt to hide the same.

Also, the legend can be placed at the bottom of the chart or to the right of the chart.

Using the attributes below, you can configure the functional and cosmetic properties of the legend.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

showLegend

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show legend on the chart.

legendPosition

String

BOTTOM orRIGHT

The legend can be plotted at two positions on the chart - below the chart (BOTTOM) and on the RIGHT side of the chart.

legendCaption

String

You can add a caption for the entire legend by setting the same here.

legendIconScale

Since v 3.2

Number

0-5

Scaling of legend icon is possible in FusionCharts XT. This attribute lets you control the size of legend icon.

legendBgColor

Color

Hex Code

Background color for the legend.

legendBgAlpha

Number

0-100

Background alpha for the legend.

legendBorderColor

Color

Hex Code

Border Color for the legend.

legendBorderThickness

Number

In Pixels

Border thickness for the legend.

legendBorderAlpha

Number

0-100

Border alpha for the legend.

legendShadow

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show a shadow for legend.

legendAllowDrag

Boolean

0/1

The legend can be made drag-able by setting this attribute to 1. End viewers of the chart can drag the legend around on the chart.

legendScrollBgColor

Color

Hex Code

If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the background color of the scroll bar.

legendScrollBarColor

Color

Hex Code

If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the bar color of the scroll bar.

legendScrollBtnColor

Color

Hex Code

If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the color of buttons of the scroll bar.

reverseLegend

Boolean

0/1

You can reverse the ordering of datasets in the legend by setting this attribute to 1.

interactiveLegend

Since v 3.2

Boolean

0/1

This attribute lets you interact with the legend in your chart. When you click a legend key, the dataplots associated with that series are eliminated from the chart. Re-clicking the key causes the dataplots to reappear.

legendNumColumns

Since v 3.2

Number

Positive Integer

If your chart contains multiple series, the legend is displayed as a grid comprising of multiple legend keys. With the help of this attribute you can specify the number of columns that are to be displayed in the legend.

FusionCharts XT offers you a lot of options to format your numbers on the chart.

Using the attributes below, you can control a myriad of options like:

Formatting of commas and decimals

Number prefixes and suffixes

Decimal places to which the numbers will round to

Scaling of numbers based on a user defined scale

Custom number input formats

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

formatNumber

Boolean

0/1

This configuration determines whether the numbers displayed on the chart will be formatted using commas, e.g., 40,000 if formatNumber='1' and 40000 if formatNumber= '0'. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

formatNumberScale

Boolean

0/1

Configuration whether to add K (thousands) and M (millions) to a number after truncating and rounding it - e.g., if formatNumberScale is set to 1, 1043 will become 1.04K (with decimals set to 2 places). Same with numbers in millions - an M will be added at the end. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

defaultNumberScale

String

The default unit of the numbers that you're providing to the chart. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

numberScaleUnit

String

Unit of each block of the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

numberScaleValue

String

Range of the various blocks that constitute the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

scaleRecursively

Since v 3.2.2 - SR3

Boolean

0/1

Whether to scale the number recursively? For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.

sScaleRecursively

Since v 3.2.2 - SR3

Boolean

0/1

To scale the numbers recursively only for the secondary y-axis you need to set this attribute to '1'. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive number scaling page.

maxScaleRecursion

Since v 3.2.2 - SR3

Number

How many recursions to complete during recursive scaling? -1 completes the entire set of recursion. For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.

sMaxScaleRecursion

Since v 3.2.2 - SR3

Number

How many recursions to complete during recursive scaling for the numbers of the secondary y-axis? -1 completes the entire set of recursion. For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.

scaleSeparator

Since v 3.2.2 - SR3

String

What character to use to separate the scales that generated after recursion? For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.

sScaleSeparator

Since v 3.2.2 - SR3

String

What character to use to separate the scales that generated after recursion for the numbers of the secondary y-axis? For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.

numberPrefix

String

Character

Using this attribute, you could add prefix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all dollars figure on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' $' to show like $40000, $50000. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

numberSuffix

String

Character

Using this attribute, you could add a suffix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all figure quantified as per annum on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' /a' to show like 40000/a, 50000/a. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

decimalSeparator

String

Character

This option helps you specify the character to be used as the decimal separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

thousandSeparator

String

Character

This option helps you specify the character to be used as the thousands separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

thousandSeparatorPosition

Since v 3.2.2 - SR3

Number

This option helps you specify the position of the thousand separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

inDecimalSeparator

String

Character

In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give an error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts XT accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can convert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the decimal separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Input Number Formatting page.

inThousandSeparator

String

Character

In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give an error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts XT accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can convert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the thousand separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Input Number Formatting page.

decimals

Number

0-10

Number of decimal places to which all numbers on the chart will be rounded to. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

forceDecimals

Boolean

0/1

Whether to add 0 padding at the end of decimal numbers. For example, If you limit the maximum number of decimal digits to 2, a number like 55.345 will be rounded to 55.34. This does not mean that all numbers will be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. For instance 55 will not be displayed as 55.00 and 55.1 will not become 55.10. In order to have fixed number of decimal places attached to all the numbers, set this attribute to 1. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

forceYAxisValueDecimals

Since v 3.2

Boolean

0/1

Whether to forcefully attach decimal places to all y-axis values. For example, If you limit the maximum number of decimal digits to 2, a number like 55.345 will be rounded to 55.34. This does not mean that all y-axis numbers will be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. For instance 55 will not be displayed as 55.00 and 55.1 will not become 55.10. In order to have fixed number of decimal places attached to all y-axis numbers, set this attribute to 1. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

forceSYAxisValueDecimals

Since v 3.2

Boolean

0/1

Whether to forcefully attach decimal places to all secondary y-axis values. For example, If you limit the maximum number of decimal digits to 2, a number like 55.345 will be rounded to 55.34. This does not mean that all secondary y-axis numbers will be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. For instance 55 will not be displayed as 55.00 and 55.1 will not become 55.10. In order to have fixed number of decimal places attached to all secondary y-axis numbers, set this attribute to 1. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

yAxisValueDecimals

Number

0-10

If you've opted to not adjust div lines, you can specify the div line values decimal precision using this attribute. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

sFormatNumber

Boolean

0/1

This configuration determines whether the numbers belonging to secondary axis will be formatted using commas, e.g., 40,000 if sFormatNumber='1' and 40000 if sFormatNumber= '0'. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

sFormatNumberScale

Boolean

0/1

Configuration whether to add K (thousands) and M (millions) to a number belonging to secondary axis after truncating and rounding it - e.g., if sFormatNumberScale is set to 1, 10434 will become 1.04K (with decimalPrecision set to 2 places). Same with numbers in millions - an M will be added at the end. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

sDefaultNumberScale

String

The default unit of the numbers belonging to secondary axis. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

sNumberScaleUnit

String

Unit of each block of the scale of secondary y-axis.For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

sNumberScaleValue

String

Range of the various blocks that constitute the scale for secondary y-axis. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.

sNumberPrefix

String

Character

Using this attribute, you could add prefix to all the numbers belonging to secondary axis. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

sNumberSuffix

String

Character

Using this attribute, you could add prefix to all the numbers belonging to secondary axis. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

sDecimals

Number

0-10

Number of decimal places to which all numbers belonging to secondary axis will be rounded to. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

sYAxisValueDecimals

Number

0-10

If you've opted to not adjust div lines, you can specify the secondary div line values decimal precision using this attribute. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.

Using the attributes below, you can define the generic font properties for all the text on the chart. These attributes allow you a high level control over font properties.

If you intend to specify font properties for individual chart elements (like Caption, sub-caption etc.), you'll need to use the Styles feature of FusionCharts XT. Using Styles, you can also specify advanced font properties like Bold, Italics, HTML Mode etc.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

baseFont

String

Font Name

This attribute lets you set the font face (family) of all the text (data labels, values etc.) on chart. If you specify outCnvBaseFont attribute also, then this attribute controls only the font face of text within the chart canvas bounds.

baseFontSize

Number

0-72

This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.

baseFontColor

Color

This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.

outCnvBaseFont

String

Font Name

This attribute sets the base font family of the chart font which lies outside the canvas i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font name provided here.

outCnvBaseFontSize

Number

0-72

This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.

outCnvBaseFontColor

Color

This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.

These attributes let you control the tool tip. You can set the background color, border color, separator character and few other details.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

showToolTip

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show tool tip on chart.

toolTipBgColor

Color

Background Color for tool tip.

toolTipBorderColor

Color

Border Color for tool tip.

toolTipSepChar

String

The character specified as the value of this attribute separates the name and value displayed in tool tip.

seriesNameInToolTip

Boolean

0/1

For combination charts, FusionCharts XT shows the following information in tool tip (unless tool text is explicitly defined): "Series Name, Category Name, Data Value". This attribute lets you control whether series name will show up in tool tip or not.

FusionCharts XT allows you to manually customize the padding of various elements on the chart to allow advanced manipulation and control over chart visualization. Padding in FusionCharts XT is always defined in pixels, unless the attribute itself suggests some other scale (like plotSpacePercent).

You can also define the chart margins. Chart Margins refer to the empty space left on the top, bottom, left and right of the chart. That means, FusionCharts XT will not plot anything in that space.

It's not necessary for you to specify any padding/margin values. FusionCharts XT automatically assumes the best values for the same, if you do not specify the same.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

captionPadding

Number

In Pixels

This attribute lets you control the space (in pixels) between the sub-caption and top of the chart canvas. If the sub-caption is not defined, it controls the space between caption and top of chart canvas. If neither caption, nor sub-caption is defined, this padding does not come into play.

xAxisNamePadding

Number

In Pixels

Using this, you can set the distance between the top end of x-axis title and the bottom end of data labels (or canvas, if data labels are not to be shown).

yAxisNamePadding

Number

In Pixels

Using this, you can set the distance between the right end of y-axis title and the start of y-axis values (or canvas, if the y-axis values are not to be shown).

yAxisValuesPadding

Number

In Pixels

This attribute helps you set the horizontal space between the canvas left edge and the y-axis values or trend line values (on left/right side). This is particularly useful, when you want more space between your canvas and y-axis values.

labelPadding

Number

In Pixels

This attribute sets the vertical space between the labels and canvas bottom edge. If you want more space between the canvas and the x-axis labels, you can use this attribute to control it.

valuePadding

Number

In Pixels

It sets the vertical space between the end of columns and start of value textboxes. This basically helps you control the space you want between your columns/anchors and the value textboxes.

plotSpacePercent

Number

0-80 (In Percent)

On a column chart, there is spacing defined between two columns. By default, the spacing is set to 20% of canvas width. If you intend to increase or decrease the spacing between columns, you can do so using this attribute. For example, if you wanted all columns to stick to each other without any space in between, you can set plotSpacePercent to 0. Similarly, if you want very thin columns, you can set plotSpacePercent to its max value of 80.

chartLeftMargin

Number

In Pixels

Amount of empty space that you want to put on the left side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.

chartRightMargin

Number

In Pixels

Amount of empty space that you want to put on the right side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.

chartTopMargin

Number

In Pixels

Amount of empty space that you want to put on the top of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.

chartBottomMargin

Number

In Pixels

Amount of empty space that you want to put on the bottom of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.

legendPadding

Number

In Pixels

Padding of legend from right/bottom side of canvas

canvasPadding

Number

In Pixels

Allows you to set empty space on the left and right side of Line dataset or Area dataset on the chart canvas. This setting won't work if one or more Column datasets are present.

canvasLeftMargin

Number

In Pixels

This attribute lets you control the space between the start of chart canvas and the start (x) of chart. In case of 2D charts, the canvas is the visible rectangular box. In case of 3D charts, the canvas box is the imaginary box around the 3D canvas.

Using this attribute, you can control the amount of empty space between the chart left side and canvas left side. By default, FusionCharts XT automatically calculates this space depending on the elements to be placed on the chart. However, if you want to over-ride this value with a higher value, you can use this attribute to specify the same. Please note that you cannot specify a margin lower than what has been calculated by the chart.

This attribute is particularly useful, when you've multiple charts placed in a page and want all their canvas start position to align with each other - so in such a case, you can set same margin value (a value large enough that it doesn't get rejected by chart owing to it being lower than the calculated value) for all such charts in the page.

canvasRightMargin

Number

In Pixels

Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between end of canvas and end of chart.

canvasTopMargin

Number

In Pixels

Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between top of canvas and top of chart.

canvasBottomMargin

Number

In Pixels

Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between bottom of canvas and bottom of chart.

In combination charts, it's necessary to provide an equal number of <category> elements and data items (<set> elements within each <dataset>). FusionCharts XT plots only those data items for which it could find a respective <category> element.

You can specify the following attributes for <category> element:

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

label

String

This attribute determines the label for the data item. The label appears on the x-axis of chart.

showLabel

Boolean

0/1

You can individually opt to show/hide labels of individual data items using this attribute.

toolText

String

The tooltip defined in the <category> element appears only when the mouse cursor is hovered over the data plots. However, this will not appear when the cursor is moved over the data labels (except for a situation when long labels are automatically truncated with ellipses. In this situation, if the mouse cursor is hovered over a truncated label, the tooltip will appear with the full label).

In case you want to set a short label and show the full label in tooltip, define the full label using this attribute within the <category> element. The tooltip with the full label will appear only when the mouse is hovered on the dataplot.

You can configure the cosmetics of vertical separator lines using the following attributes:

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

color

Color

Hex Color

This attribute defines the color of vertical separator line.

thickness

Number

In Pixels

Thickness in pixels of the vertical separator line.

alpha

Number

0-100

Alpha of the vertical separator line.

dashed

Boolean

0/1

Whether the vertical separator line should appear as dashed.

dashLen

Number

In Pixels

If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash.

dashGap

Number

In Pixels

If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash gap.

label

String

Label for the vertical separator line, if to be shown.

showLabelBorder

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show a border around the vLine label.

linePosition

Number

0-1

Helps configure the position of vertical line i.e., if a vLine is to be plotted between 2 points Jan and Feb, user can set any position between 0 and 1 to indicate the relative position of vLine between these two points (0 means Jan and 1 means Feb). By default, it’s 0.5 to show in between the points.

labelPosition

Number

0-1

Helps configure the position of the vLine label by setting a relative position between 0 and 1. In vertical charts, 0 means top of canvas and 1 means bottom. In horizontal charts, 0 means left of canvas and 1 means right.

For example, if we're plotting a monthly sales comparison chart for 2 successive years, the first dataset will contain the data for first year and the next one for the second year.

You can provide dataset level cosmetics so that all data within that dataset will be plotted in the same color/alpha/etc.

Also, each dataset can be named using the seriesName attribute of <dataset> element. The series name appears in the legend of the chart. In our previous example, the series name could have well been 2005 and 2006 for first and second dataset respectively.

Depending on the chart type, there are a number of properties which you can define for each <dataset> element.

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

renderAs

String

COLUMN, AREA or LINE

This attribute defines what the particular dataset will be plotted as. Valid values are COLUMN, AREA or LINE.

parentYAxis

String

P or S

This attribute allows you to set the parent axis of the dataset - P (primary) or S (secondary). Primary datasets are drawn against the left y-axis and the secondary against the right-axis.

showPlotBorder

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show the border of this dataset (area or column only).

plotBorderColor

Color

Color for data plot border of this dataset (area or column only)

plotBorderThickness

Number

0-5 (Pixels)

Thickness for data plot border of this dataset (area or column only)

plotBorderAlpha

Number

0-100

Alpha for data plot border of this dataset (area or column only)

seriesName

String

Lets you specify the series name for a particular dataset. For example, if you're plotting a chart to indicate monthly sales analysis for 2005 and 2006, the seriesName for the first dataset will be 2005 and that of the second will be 2006. The seriesName of a dataset is shown in legend.

color

Color

Hex Code (Or Comma separated list)

This attribute sets the color using which columns, lines, area of that dataset will be drawn. For column chart, you can specify a list of comma separated hex codes to get a gradient plot.

alpha

String

0-100 or Comma Separated List

This attribute sets the alpha (transparency) of the entire dataset.

showValues

Boolean

0/1

Whether to show the values for this dataset.

valuePosition

Since v 3.2

String

ABOVEBELOWAUTO

This attribute lets you adjust the vertical alignment of data values for all dataplots in the dataset. The alignment is set with respect to the position of the dataplots on the chart. By default, the attribute is set to AUTO mode in which the alignment of each data value is determined automatically based on the position of each plot point. In ABOVE mode, data values are displayed above the plot points unless a plot point is too close to the upper edge of the canvas. While in BELOW mode, data values are displayed below the plot points unless a plot point is too close to the lower edge of the canvas. The attribute will function only if showValue attribute is set to 1 in this particular dataset.

dashed

Boolean

0/1

Whether this dataset will appear as dashed.

includeInLegend

Boolean

0/1

Whether to include the seriesName of this dataset in legend. In combination charts, this can be particularly useful when you've used the area/line chart to plot a trend but do not want the seriesName of that trend to appear in legend.

drawAnchors

Boolean

0/1

Whether to draw anchors for the particular dataset. If the anchors are not shown, then the tool tip and links won't work for the dataset.

anchorSides

Number

3-20

Sets the number of sides that the anchors of the particular dataset will have. For e.g., an anchor with 3 sides will represent a triangle, with 4 it will be a square and so on.

anchorRadius

Number

In Pixels

This attribute sets the radius (in pixels) of the anchors of the particular dataset. Greater the radius, bigger will be the anchor size.

anchorBorderColor

Color

Hex Code

Lets you set the border color of anchors of the particular dataset.

anchorBorderThickness

Number

In Pixels

Helps you set border thickness of anchors of the particular dataset.

anchorBgColor

Color

Hex Code

Helps you set the background color of anchors of the particular dataset.

anchorAlpha

Number

0-100

Helps you set the alpha of entire anchors of the particular dataset. If you need to hide the anchors for the dataset but still enable tool tips, set this as 0.

lineThickness

Number

In Pixels

Thickness of the lines for the particular dataset.

lineDashLen

Number

In Pixels

If the lines are to be shown as dash for the particular dataset, this attribute defines the length of dash.

lineDashGap

Number

In Pixels

If the lines are to be shown as dash for the particular dataset, this attribute defines the length of dash gap.

In combination charts, you should again note that the number of <category> elements should be equal to the number of data points in each data sets, i.e., if you mention twelve categories (twelve months), the data for both years (2005 & 2006) should also contain twelve <set> elements (twelve rows of data).

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

anchorSides

Number

3-20

Lets you specify "set" specific sides of the anchor.

anchorRadius

Number

In Pixels

Lets you specify "set" specific radius (in pixels) of the anchor.

anchorBorderColor

Color

Hex Code

Lets you specify "set" specific border color of the anchor.

anchorBorderThickness

Number

In Pixels

Lets you specify "set" specific border thickness of the anchor.

anchorBgColor

Color

Hex Code

Lets you specify "set" specific background color of the anchor.

anchorAlpha

Number

0-100

Lets you specify "set" specific alpha of the anchor.

anchorBgAlpha

Number

0-100

Lets you specify "set" specific alpha of the anchor background.

value

Number

Numerical value for the data item. This value will be plotted on the chart.

displayValue

String

If instead of the numerical value of this data, you wish to display a custom string value, you can specify the same here. Examples are annotation for a data item etc.

color

Color

Hex Code

For combination charts, you can define the color of datasets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify its color at "set" level using this attribute. This attribute accepts hex color codes without #.

link

String

You can define links for individual data items. That enables the end user to click on data items (columns, lines, bars etc.) and drill down to other pages. To define the link for data items, use the link attribute.
You can define links that open in same window, new window, pop-up window or frames. Please see "Drill Down Charts >FusionCharts Link format" for more information.
Also, you'll need to URL Encode all the special characters (like ? and &) present in the link.

toolText

String

By default, FusionCharts XT shows the series Name, Category Name and value as tool tip text for that data item. But, if you want to display more information for the data item as tool tip, you can use this attribute to specify the same.

showValue

Boolean

0/1

You can individually opt to show/hide values of individual data items using this attribute. This value over-rides the dataset level value.

valuePosition

Since v 3.2

String

ABOVEBELOWAUTO

If you've opted to show a particular data value on the chart, this attribute lets you adjust the vertical alignment of individual data values with respect to dataplots. By default, this attribute is set to AUTO mode in which the alignment of a data value is determined automatically based on the position of its plot point. In ABOVE mode, a data value is displayed above the plot point unless a plot point is too close to the upper edge of the canvas while in BELOW mode, a data value is displayed below the plot point unless a plot point is too close to the lower edge of the canvas.

dashed

Boolean

0/1

Whether the border of this data item should appear as dashed. This is particularly useful when you want to highlight a data (such as forecast or trend etc.). This value over-rides the dataset level value.

alpha

Number

0-100

For combination charts, you can define the alpha of datasets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify its alpha at "set" level using this attribute.

Using the <trendLines> element (and children <line> elements), you can define trend lines on the chart.

Trend lines are horizontal lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value. For example, if you are plotting sales data of current year, you might want to add previous year's average monthly sales as trend indicator for ease of comparison.

For each trend line on the chart, you need to define a <line> element under <trendLines> element as under:

You can control the cosmetic and functional properties of trend-lines using the following attributes:

Attribute Name

Type

Range

Description

parentYAxis

String

P/S

Whether the trend line should be plotted against the primary y-axis or secondary y-axis. Possible values are "P" or "S".

startValue

Number

Numeric Value

The starting value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the startValue will be 102.

endValue

Number

Numeric Value

The ending y-axis value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the endValue will be 109. If you do not specify a value for endValue, it will automatically assume the same value as startValue.

displayValue

String

If you want to display a string caption for the trend line by its side, you can use this attribute. Example: displayValue='Last Month High'. When you don't supply this attribute, it automatically takes the value of startValue.

color

String

Hex Code

Color of the trend line and its associated text.

isTrendZone

Boolean

0/1

Whether the trend will display a line, or a zone (filled colored rectangle).

showOnTop

Boolean

0/1

Whether the trend line/zone will be displayed over data plots or under them.

thickness

Number

In Pixels

If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define the thickness of trend line.

alpha

Number

0-100

Alpha of the trend line.

dashed

Boolean

0/1

If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define whether the trend line will appear as dashed.

dashLen

Number

In Pixels

If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash.

dashGap

Number

In Pixels

If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash gap.